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Around Amherst: Wildwood School highlights culture of positivity
Amherst disability commission upgraded to handle funds, report to town manager
Leverett will consider accepting 147-acre working forest at May’s town meeting; public hearing this Thursday
Alex Galloway takes office as Deerfield Planning and Economic Development Coordinator
‘Hands off our students now’: 100 at pro-Palestinian rally demand improved protections for internationals, divestment from Israel
AMHERST — Chanting “hands off our students now” and “up, up with liberation, down, down with deportation” more than 100 students, staff and faculty at the University of Massachusetts, participating in a pro-Palestinian rally and march Thursday afternoon, demanded both divestment from Israel and improved protections for international students, including those whose visas are being revoked.
Photo: Snowy cleanup in Hadley
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Amherst launches red card campaign for immigrant rights
Feds revoking visas, terminating student statuses of four more UMass students, bringing total to 10
Amherst Town Council approves University Drive overlay district
‘Hands off our students now’: 100 at pro-Palestinian rally demand improved protections for internationals, divestment from Israel
Hadley man detained after chemicals go missing
Amherst adopts new rules to restrict doses in nicotine pouches, but won’t restrict sale of product
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Amherst draft housing plan calls for between 265-715 new units in five years
Earth Matters: Learning a sense of wonder: The importance of outdoor experiences in the natural world in our youth
Boosting a shared mission: $300K influx will expand work of Tapestry, Craig’s Doors
Here to help the community’s artists: Human Scale Art Space aims to advance visual arts in the Pioneer Valley
Sports
High school baseball preview 2025: Hopkins Academy optimistic it can continue postseason success
HADLEY – The Hopkins Academy baseball team has hit the field for the 2025 season and head coach Dan Vreeland is cautiously optimistic in this year’s edition of the Golden Hawks.
HS Lacrosse Preview 2025: Defending champ Amherst girls looking to “re-load”
High school tennis preview 2025: PVCICS loaded again and ready for another postseason run
UMass Men’s Basketball: Three Minutemen enter transfer portal
Amherst’s Ryan Leonard makes NHL debut for Washington Capitals in 4-3 win over Bruins in BostonOpinion
Guest columnist Ryan Voiland: Slashing of farming, food support senseless
The following speech was delivered by Ryan Voiland at a farmers’ rally opposing cuts to USDA and other federal programs that are negatively impacting farms and agriculture in the region and around the country. The rally took place on Sunday, March 23 in front of Hadley Town Hall.
Guest columnist Shalini Bahl: Beyond boycotts — Mindful spending’s real impact
Elisa K. Campbell: Thoughts on driving through Northampton
Angela Parker: A favor to ask — remember those fighting long Covid
Guest columnist David E. Sullivan: A duty to call out demeaning immigrants and the rule of law
Arts & Life
‘Art in the Age of Human Impact’: New exhibition at UMass explores complex relationship between humans and nature
The total impact that humans have had on the environment may be hard to measure, but a new exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, running through Friday, May 9, aims to show some of that impact and create conversations about how artists respond to it with their work.
‘A woman who should be remembered’: New play about the life of Frances Perkins, the brains behind FDR’s New Deal, April 5 and 11
Macbeth, up close and personal: Second annual Montague Shakespeare Festival puts a new spin on the ‘psychological dark power drama’
From the field to your screens: Two seniors take Frontier Community Access Television’s sports broadcasting to new heights
Amherst Cinema to scale back offerings amid financial deficits